The History of World Literature
- Author / Editor
- Voth, Grant L.
The History of World Literature
- Published
- Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2007.
- Physical Description
- Sound recording. 24 CDs (approx. 24 hrs.). 4 booklets.
- Series
- Great Courses: Literature & English Language, no. 2300.
- Description
- Includes a thirty-minute audio lecture (Part 2 of 4, disc 9, Lecture 17) on "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'," with emphasis on the frame narrative (in contrast to Boccaccio's "Decameron"), appropriateness of tales to tellers, dramatic interaction of the pilgrims (particularly in Part 1), the Marriage Group, and the accomplishments of WBPT. The booklet that accompanies Part 2 of 4 includes an outline of the lecture and several "Questions to Consider" (pp. 19-22).
- Alternative Title
- "Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Recordings and Films
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale